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New York City rapper and producer, Xaviersobased, born Xavier Lopez, currently makes music with his rap collective, 1C34. Growing up on the Upper West Side, the Dominican rapper’s music is a frenetic mix of fast-paced bass-boosted beats, layered over hazy melodies, all topped with his effortless bars.

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Both bizarre and beautiful, this cabaret features specialty acts from Portland's best loved entertainers expressing their adoration on stage for the varied works of cult director David Lynch. You'll see Twin Peaks, Dune, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart and more brought to life via acts featuring burlesque and drag.

Hosted By Natasha Riot

Saint Syndrome's long-running show, Piano Queen, returns for a special, extra-festive Holiday Edition with guest star Nicole Onoscopi! Get ready for a night full of laughs, heartwarming moments, and jaw-dropping talent, with the live music and comedy you've come to love in this one-of-a-kind musical drag spectacular.

Saint Syndrome is the lowest bass with the smallest waist, Portland's Miss Gay Pride 2025, and the only live-singing, piano-playing drag sensation! A native of Salem, OR, she traded in the classical conservatory for the speakeasy spotlight, and now wows audiences worldwide with her eclectic blend of jazz, musical theater, parody, and original music. Her unique piano-bar event, "Keyed Up Karaoke," regularly attracts local talent and traveling Broadway casts. Having shared the stage with legends like Jinkx Monsoon, Latrice Royale, Alyssa Edwards, Plastique Tiara, and other RuPaul’s Drag Race stars, Saint Syndrome is a performer you won’t want to miss! @saintsyndrome

Nicole Onoscopi is a Portland-based, Oregon-raised, NYC-cultivated drag queen known for live vocals, high-energy brunches, and bingos. Featured in Cosmopolitan’s Cosmo Queens, she’s opened for drag icons like Juno Birch, Crystal Methyd, and Alyssa Edwards, moderated for Sonja Morgan, and performed in a Guinness World Record-holding drag show. She has also slayed the Portland Trail Blazers NBA halftime stage. She is proudly a member of the CC Slaughters Nightclub family where you can catch her every Friday night singing with Saint Syndrome. @nicoleonoscopi

In early 2017, Scott McCaughey was asked to write some holiday songs for a Monkees holiday album. He became so inspired by the task that he wrote more than an album’s worth of material and decided to record that album with his group, The Minus 5.

The resulting album, Dear December, brings yearly holiday cheer and a batch of original songs meant for singing, drinking, parties, and of course a few dismal sad songs too. The band has only gotten together to play these a few times before, so this is a rare opportunity to see them (and other appropriate or inappropriate Xmas tunes) performed LIVE.  This time around the band will be Scott, Casey Neill, Jenny Conlee, Jim Talstra, Paulie Pulvirenti, and possibly a few other punchbowl refugees.

"New Christmas Hymn" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yuqiZygJD8

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Sending Up Flares, the fourth record from Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, is the sound of a band rallying together, turning the genre-bending range of its influences into the group’s most cohesive, cathartic album yet. Created amidst chaos and uncertainty, these songs offer a lifeline to a world in need of balance, shot through with stories about resolve, resilience, wonder, and positive human interaction.

Those themes come together in the album’s cinematic title track, where Neill sings about a stranded motorist whose car breaks down in the middle of the night, seemingly far away from civilization. “The flares are shot off in hopes someone will come to help,” explains the frontman, who co-wrote the album’s songs with guitarist/producer Chet Lyster. “Upon climbing a hill to get some perspective, the lights of a massive metropolis unfold with countless flares being launched by other people who also need relief. It’s the same realization of the castaway in ‘Message in a Bottle’ — I’m not alone in being alone. It can work as a metaphor for mental health, addiction, alienation, or simply trying to be seen.”

With Sending Up Flares, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats don’t just make themselves seen; they make themselves heard, too. Each of the band’s previous albums explored the evolving range of Neill’s musical interests, from the dreamy Americana songs that filled 2010’s Goodbye to the Rank and File to the electronic textures that peppered 2018’s Subterrene (whose critically-acclaimed songs received praise from Rolling Stone and No Depression). Here, the Portland-based supergroup finds room for everything, turning a wealth of musical influences — including folk, punk, art-rock, atmospheric soundscapes, guitar freak-outs, and string arrangements — into something singular. “I love exploring all of the music I love,” says Neill, who even nods to artistic role models like David Bowie, author Ursula K. Le Guin, and filmmaker Wim Wenders in the song “Meteor Shower.” “Sending Up Flares feels like we’ve reached a point where the band has settled into a natural, nuanced place”, he adds. “This is who we are. It’s what we do.”

The Sadies have played all over the world where, for the last 30 years, they have astonished audiences with their earthy arsenal of roots music, country, spaghetti western, surf, garage rock, psychedelia, and the slippery beast known as alt rock, all with uncanny precision and passion.

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